"Songs of the Wild" is about nature. It is also about human nature. The episodes of this series challenge issues head on; issues of innocence and ignorance, courage and sacrifice that have been at the heart of the long and turbulent love affair we have had with the natural environment. The series will careen from fact to legend, from science to myth, from natural history to history, from poetry to polemics. It will cut to the quick, of issues whether political or in the realm of science, and it will offer a forum for opposing opinions about the most conflictive issues that have faced us in the past and that challenge our passage into the future.

"Songs of the Wild" will not always be harmonic, but will sometimes be filled with stanzas of pain, melancholy and regret.  But in the main, "Songs of the Wild" are celebrations of life and of the Earth and of the human capacity to know how connected we are to all living things. The series will be instructive, inspiring, often surprising, always accurate in terms of natural history. Its major characters are the creatures Noah carried on the Arc. And it always remembers that among those creatures was man, was woman. "Songs of the Wild" reminds us that we are not apart from nature, but are an integral part of nature, just as subject to its laws as are the bear, the trout and the swan.

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TaTanka is presently seeking a co-production broadcaster. A detailed proposal and an outline of each program can be obtained by contacting tatankaproductions@hotmail.com.  A demo of "Songs of the Wild" can be seen on the next menu tab, Songs of the Wild Demo.